"title":"10 Principle 6 - Not Depending On or Needing Buildings",
"url":"http:\/\/sermonindex.net\/SID25355",
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"scripture":"Acts 5:12, Acts 19:9-10, Acts 2:46",
"topic":"Audio Books",
"description":"One of the things you do not find in the Book of Acts is the reliance on church buildings. Yet in almost every Christian circle and denomination, there is an emphasis upon building the church, not that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the body of Christ may be built up\u00e2\u20ac\u009d112 but rather the building of an actual structure that we refer to commonly as the church. There is a great benefit at times in having a building where the Lord\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s people can meet in and use for the ministry of the Gospel. Yet, when we look at the Book of Acts, we find no visible record that the Church built buildings. Though they met in some physical locations such as Solomon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Colonnade113 and the hall of Tyrannus for even two years!114 Yet, this was not the common practice of how saints met across the rest of God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Churches. Even when looking carefully in Church history it is hard to find evidence of a building being used until 300 AD when pagan temples were being converted into churches under the reign of Constantine.",
"description":"As one reads through the Book of Acts, the work of the Holy Spirit in the early Church is evident on every page. If you remove the work of the Holy Spirit from the Book of Acts you have virtually nothing left. Truly, He empowered the first disciples to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153turn the world upside down.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The places in the world today where the Church is expanding the fastest are those places where Jesus\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 followers are yielded to and empowered by the Holy Spirit.",
"description":"Christianity was birthed in the Holy Spirit. Jesus our Lord taught it was essential to rely and wait for the power of the Spirit. We sadly see many abuses of Spirit-led living in modern Christendom but this should make us all the more hungry for the true manifestation. We are impotent without the infilling power of the Spirit. When we have God in the midst everything changes. We will not be able to stay quiet, we will speak boldly for our Lord that bought us with such a great price.1003 The underground Church in China chooses their leadership from those who are the hungriest after God. Are you hungry for the living God? For His power displayed in your life?",
"preacher_description":"Rolfe Barnard (1904 - 1969)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Rolfe Barnard in mp3 format. Was evidently a prophet from God for the 20th Century. With a profound sense of the absolute sovereignty and glory of Jesus Christ, he was able to preach a message that produced conviction of sin. He maintained through all his ministry what he himself called a \"sweetheart love for the Lord Jesus,\" and it is most surely apparent in his messages.\r\n\r\nHe was an acclaimed preacher of primarily the 1940's and 1950's.About 100,000 professed faith in Christ during his decades of preaching. He was initially associated with John R.Rice in the 1940's. However,after giving a scripturally based message on John 6 Before rice and some other fundamentalist leaders he was kicked out of the Fundamentalist camp. He then went on the independent circuit. His preaching tours as an evangelist were mainly in the American south.But he also ministered in the mid-west and Canada as well.",
"description":"We need to know the Holy Ghost, because He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s our life. We need to drink of that Fountain of life. It isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sufficient to be baptized with the Holy Ghost, but now to walk in the Spirit, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153e has translated you out of the kingdom of darkness.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d How many people claim to be baptized with the Holy Ghost, and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re satisfied to still live in the flesh, and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re satisfied to still be governed by the flesh! That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s where our frowns come from. But beloved, that, the Bible says, is dangerous: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If we live in the flesh, we shall die.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d We shall die! \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But if ye live in the spirit\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Do you know the Spirit? Do you know the Holy Ghost? Is He your habitation? Is He your realm? Is He the ocean of life and of light and of grace and of love and of joy and of peace into which you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been sunk, deeply sunk, so that your whole being has been transformed into this ocean of love? \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Have you received the Holy Ghost?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d",
"preacher_description":"Hans R. Waldvogel (1893 - 1969)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Hans R. Waldvogel in mp3 format. A powerful preacher who ministered as a pentecostal minister. He did not believe in sectarian groups but rather saw the Church as a whole who have the person of Christ in them. Brother Waldvogel gleamed from many different men of God including A.B. Simpson.\r\n\r\nHis preaching was centred around the very person of Jesus Christ and the work of the Holy Spirit. He spoke much of the rest of the Lord in Christian work and experience and the Spirit-filled life.",
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"book":"Hebrews",
"chapter":"3"
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"book":"Acts",
"chapter":"19"
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{
"book":"Ephesians",
"chapter":"1"
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},
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"title":"Blocked and Guided by the Spirit",
"url":"http:\/\/sermonindex.net\/SID28596",
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"format":"mp3",
"scripture":"Acts 16:6-10, Acts 19:1-7",
"topic":"Holy Spirit",
"description":"At a Brooklyn Tabernacle prayer meeting, Pastor Cymbala presented an exhortation about being led and controlled by the Holy Spirit. A excellent message sharing the role of the Holy Spirit in the Church and His role in the life of the believer. Cymbala shares 3 different aspects of the work of the Holy Spirit.",
"preacher_description":"Jim Cymbala (1949 - Present)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Jim Cymbala in mp3 format. Brother Jim Cymbala was called into ministry without formal training in Brooklyn, New York to pastor a small gathering. God showed him the great need of prayer and depending on the work of the Holy Spirit in the ministry. God blessed and grew the brooklyn tabernacle to a large church of thousands because of this reliance.\r\n\r\nThe burden of his ministry is to show the vital need for prayer, deependence on God and that God uses the weak and lowly to build His kingdom. He has written many books including the best-selling: \"Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire\" and his newer book \"Spirit Rising\" speaking of the neglected work of the Holy Spirit in our churches these days.",
"_scripture":[
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"book":"Acts",
"chapter":"19"
},
{
"book":"Acts",
"chapter":"16"
}
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},
{
"title":"Christus Victor!",
"url":"http:\/\/sermonindex.net\/SID10884",
"size":"0",
"format":"mp3",
"scripture":"Acts 19:15",
"topic":"Cross Of Christ",
"description":"Jesus came to destroy the works of the Devil, and it was what was demonstrated at the Cross that is His triumph over the whole demonic realm. The early church had this perspective, and it needs to be ours at the end, for surely that same demonstration will be required. We need to see the spiritual realm as the apostles and Jesus saw it. The reality of the spiritual realm is the same as it was 2000 years ago.",
"preacher_description":"Art Katz (1929 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 2007)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Art Katz in mp3 format. He was radically converted by reading the New Testament. God used him to have a powerful prophetic insight into the end-times and the coming suffering of the jewish people before the great accepting of Jesus as Messiah. His eschatological insight is a very needful truth to be realized in the body of Christ. \r\n\r\nArt was a prophetic voice insofar as he called his listeners to purposes in God that would affect both time and eternity, purposes that had to do with the glory of God in the Church. Frequently, his messages called the Church to an awareness of the Last Days [End-times] in such a way that made that time seem imminent and at the door.",
"preacher_description":"Paris Reidhead (1919 - 1992)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Paris Reidhead in mp3 format. Was a Christian missionary, teacher, writer, and advocate of economic development in impoverished nations. A spiritual crisis during this period\u2014as he described two decades later in what is probably his best-known recorded teaching, \"Ten Shekels and a Shirt\"--left Reidhead with the conviction that much of evangelicalism had adopted utilitarian and humanistic philosophies contradictory to Biblical teaching. The end of all being, he came to believe, was not the happiness of man, but the glorification of God. This theme would recur throughout his later teaching.\r\n\r\nSince Mr. Reidhead's death in 1992, Bible Teaching Ministries, Inc. continues under the leadership of his wife, Marjorie, and daughter, Virginia Teitt, a dedicated Board, and the many people who have donated time and talent after being changed by God\u2019s Word through this message. The message of the Gospel is reaching an ever-widening audience all over the world.",
"preacher_description":"Rolfe Barnard (1904 - 1969)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Rolfe Barnard in mp3 format. Was evidently a prophet from God for the 20th Century. With a profound sense of the absolute sovereignty and glory of Jesus Christ, he was able to preach a message that produced conviction of sin. He maintained through all his ministry what he himself called a \"sweetheart love for the Lord Jesus,\" and it is most surely apparent in his messages.\r\n\r\nHe was an acclaimed preacher of primarily the 1940's and 1950's.About 100,000 professed faith in Christ during his decades of preaching. He was initially associated with John R.Rice in the 1940's. However,after giving a scripturally based message on John 6 Before rice and some other fundamentalist leaders he was kicked out of the Fundamentalist camp. He then went on the independent circuit. His preaching tours as an evangelist were mainly in the American south.But he also ministered in the mid-west and Canada as well.",
"_scripture":[
{
"book":"Acts",
"chapter":"19"
}
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},
{
"title":"The Way To Spiritual Ascendancy 2",
"url":"http:\/\/sermonindex.net\/SID28035",
"size":"0",
"format":"mp3",
"scripture":"Ephesians 5:18, Acts 19, John 1:47-51",
"topic":"Spiritual Growth",
"description":"\"Until the throne room is central to church life,\" Dana warns, \"we're not gathering under an open heaven.\" If we are going to represent the Lord Jesus Christ, we will encounter all kinds of opposition--counterfeit ministry, demonic opposition, interference in the prayer meetings, and so on. To counteract the principalities and powers, we must know what it means to be filled with the Spirit.",
"preacher_description":"Warren Wiersbe (1929 - Present)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Warren Wiersbe in mp3 format. Warren W. Wiersbe is best known as a Bible teacher, author, and conference speaker. He has ministered in churches and conferences in Canada, Central and South America, Europe, and the United States. He has published more than 150 books and was awarded the Gold Medallion Lifetime Achievement Award by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association.\r\n\r\n He is known as a \"pastors' pastor,\" and his speaking,writing and radio ministries have brought new understanding of the truths of God's Word to people around the world. Wiersbe is perhaps best known for his series of 50 books in the \"BE\" series: Be Real, Be Rich, Be Obedient, Be Mature, Be Joyful, etc. and other theological works.",
"_scripture":[
{
"book":"Acts",
"chapter":"19"
}
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},
{
"title":"When The Spirit Comes",
"url":"http:\/\/sermonindex.net\/SID24048",
"size":"0",
"format":"mp3",
"scripture":"Acts 19:1-12",
"topic":"Holy Spirit Filling",
"description":"Even when we love the Lord something can still be missing. God wants us to be filled and controlled by the Holy Spirit. Acts 19:1-12",
"preacher_description":"Jim Cymbala (1949 - Present)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Jim Cymbala in mp3 format. Brother Jim Cymbala was called into ministry without formal training in Brooklyn, New York to pastor a small gathering. God showed him the great need of prayer and depending on the work of the Holy Spirit in the ministry. God blessed and grew the brooklyn tabernacle to a large church of thousands because of this reliance.\r\n\r\nThe burden of his ministry is to show the vital need for prayer, deependence on God and that God uses the weak and lowly to build His kingdom. He has written many books including the best-selling: \"Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire\" and his newer book \"Spirit Rising\" speaking of the neglected work of the Holy Spirit in our churches these days.",
"_scripture":[
{
"book":"Acts",
"chapter":"19"
}
]
},
{
"title":"You Need The Baptism Of The Holy Spirit",
"preacher_description":"David Wilkerson (1931 \u2013 2011)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker David Wilkerson in mp3 format. Founder of Times Square Church in New York City with over 100 different languages spoken in the congregation. Wilkerson wrote many powerful books such as: The Vision and Cross and the Switchblade. His ministry was prophetic as God called him to be a watchman to the Church in North America. He gave clear messages on repentance to the Church. \r\n\r\nWilkerson also founded Teen Challenge where there are hundreds of centres for Christ-centered drug recovery and addiction recovery. He also organized and spoke at pastors gatherings in many countries where he gave prophetic strong messages to encourage pastors and leaders.",
